info about alligators

Alligators are amazing animals, if you ever get to see one in real life, then you are lucky. You can easily recognize an alligator from a crocodile if they are side by side, the croc will have a longer, thiner snout, and the alligators snout should be thicker and shorter. You can also know because on an alligator, only their top teeth will be showing. A male alligator can be up to 15 feet long, and 1200 pounds. An alligators bite can cause more than 2000 pounds of pressure. The tail, which accounts for more than half of the body length, if mostly used to push the alligator around in the water, though, it can also be used for self defense if needed. Though alligators usually eat food that they can eat in one bite, like birds or moles, when they do eat something big, they do something called a death roll, which drowns the animal and pulls off chunks of meat. Then , if it still is hard to eat, they will let it rot, so it gets softer.